Malware, the malicious software can put your computer into a pool of troubles. There are many ways that the malware can get to your computer, namely floppy drive, CD drive, pen drive, internet, and a few more. Internet is known to be the most common gateway between your computer and the malware. The trap is very well organized where the user is offered a free scan for any potential virus on the computer. Accepting the offer triggers the trouble. There will be more pop ups coming up, offering you an antivirus software. This antivirus software is nothing but the malware. Sometimes people even pay to get into trouble. In other words, they are made to pay for these masked malware.
There is another term used for such malicious software, the scareware. Microsoft claims that more than 4.4 million computers are infected by the scareware today. You can take a note of few scareware programs: Personal antivirus, XP antivirus, DriveCleaner, RapidAntiVirus, Antivirus?09, and WiPC antivirus. You must be careful of such malware.
How to clean up malware? You may have already infected your computer before you read this article. Sadly, the remedies are not the easiest of all. However, we look to discuss all the remedies and the best one for you, right here in this article.
Take a back up of your important data, before you choose to do anything at all. Sometimes you may lose your important files when trying to clean up malware from your computer. Back up could be taken on your flash USB drive, Floppy drive (if sufficient), or on a CD drive. Once you have taken a copy of your important files, you are ready to fight the malware.
Installing an anti malware on your infected computer may rarely work for you. Unless the malware is too weak, your anti malware will never be able to clean up the smart malware program. It is advisable to install an anti malware software, well before you fall into trouble. Installing it on an infected computer may rarely solve the issue.
Installing and running an anti malware software in the safe mode could be a better option. In safe mode, your OS will not allow any programs to run automatically. This will allow your anti malware to install properly and then scan and get rid of malware. However, you will have to be lucky enough to not have your OS infected as well; because if your OS is infected, the safe mode might do no good.
Nothing works as well as disconnecting your troubled hard disk from the computer, and connecting it to another safe and malware protected computer. The hard disk must be connected as slave. The anti malware on the computer would do a good job cleaning up the slave hard disk. You may perform the operation on a variety of computers having different anti malware software installed. This would guarantee a clean hard disk.
In case it suits you, you could simply format your current copy of OS, and install a fresh one. The process is simpler and does not need you to bother about any remedies.
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